Dorothy sat at her laptop Tuesday morning, Kylee asleep in the bassinet beside her, searching for answers she knew she wouldn’t find.
How to get birth certificate without hospital records
Delayed birth certificate requirements
Birth certificate for unregistered birth
Every result led to the same conclusion: she needed documentation she didn’t have. Hospital records. Prenatal care records. Witness affidavits. Things that couldn’t be faked with a home printer and Photoshop.
Dorothy closed the laptop and stared at Kylee. Jake would be home tonight. Would walk through that door expecting to meet his daughter, expecting everything to be normal and documented and legal.
And Dorothy had nothing.
Except—
The thought came slowly, reluctantly. She’d pushed it away a dozen times already this
